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work out of their setting or matrix used directly. My inventlon 1s ill the character and amountof the material; and I have successfully em rsist of pure alumina, of-iron and titanium citizen of the -United States. residing at Niagai'a'Fallsfinthe county of Niagara and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Antislip Floors. of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to antislip floors or treads, and is designed to overcome or reduce the tendency of abrasive grains to when based upon the discovery that antislip material is greatly improved in its resistance to being pulled or worked out of its matrix if the material is used in the form of fragments broken from a mass Y or block-of grains united without any bond between them.

In these fragments, the abrasive grains are .:;welded to each other by self bonding or by sintering or incipient sion thereof, without destroying their individual characteris- If the abrasives used .are artificial a I preferably mold them 1n a ape, I oo or mass without any binder, and heat this mass, preferably inan electric furnace, to a temperature of sintering or iet fusio which will weld the grains er. 1s perature will vary with atures varying from 18 0. Such aluminous arasives o "no conbut also contain oxides 7 together with silica, alumina, and lime in various proportions. Thecom ition varies 'with the 7 making such artificial aluminous abrasiv U In my etc of ag lomerating, no mder is ded an the are 'directl welded -.to each other without a I heir individual characteristics; 'Themassis then cooled and and the cuts rous aterial. Th

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ilicon ide abrasiyelgrainslare'used .for 1s purpose, may use (any one of sev- "eraliffietliods well knew in theart for in aking afself-bonded mass 'of silicon carbide grains. vFor example, I may take a mass of silicon carbidegrains of No. to 150 mesh, add a temporary binder such as flour and .watenand mold into blocks of the size of an ordinary'19 inchfire brick. The blocks are -then placed in the mixture of a silicon carbide furnace of thewell known type and :brought up to the temperature of the forma-v tion of carborundum. This treatment produces a welding or .selfsbonding -of the grains into asolidblockof great strength and resistance to wear without substantially alterthe T,individual -characteristics of the grains. Q-After the blocks thus converted are .taken from the furnace, they are crushed and screened toiragments of the desired sizes.

. 1 have used with good results, the size which will pass over atone-eighth inch mesh screen and through a three-eighths inch ents thus produced are found to give exec lent results when used as aggregates in .antislip material such as cement floors and the 'ke, on account of the adhesion which their porous surfaces offer to cement or other matrixor binder. For example. inthe manufacture of terrazzo flooring, amixture may be made of one part f 41 i .1! nts three on, a

ion of water into a thick mortar inthe wellknown practice of laying terrazzo jfloora and the mixture is then spread on the concrete or other foundation to a thickness of :about .oneinch. It is-then trowelled or filgddqwny-in the ordinary .man'ner,,-and sa I surface. gOther vm t s of fl o u chfas are well known I a suflicient time to complete and gavements. They adhere very strongly Iclaim: an

to t e cement, much more stron 1y than L antislip floor or tread having emwould the individual silicon car-bi e grains. aents of a self-bonded mass 20 The material thus formed has v i flabras ve grains united without aseparate strengthrand cresistance to wear. It; has ilbi'nder under high temperature.

V sufiieient porosity to offer a rough and antij2. An'antislip floor or tread havin Port-- slip SHIfIICG GVGD after the floor or tile has land, pement with its. ents em dded been polished. "The "fragments are ivell thereinfsaid fragments? ing broken por- 25 adapted for use with all varieties of bonding tions' of a self-sintered mass of abrasive agents used 'in floor eonstruotigm, -such .asg'rains free from added binder.

magnesium oxyohloride, ceramic bonds; rub- B. A terrazzo floor having embedded in g ber bonds, and thelike. 1 7" the eement abrasive fragments broken from i variations may be made in the aba block of abrasive rains sintered without 30 j rasive material used, the temperatures emthe addition of adde binder.

1 ployed in bonding the grains directlyto -lntestimony whereof I havehereunto set each other the method of crushing, r em, myhand. a j, t

without departing from my invention. w FRANK J. TONE. 

